The End of Idealism
U.S. foreign policy in the Arab Middle East is now shifting from actively promoting democratic change to the previous policy of realpolitik – a policy based on the appeasement of dictators and despots...
View ArticleRethinking American War Strategy
In 1945, after the liberation of France, it would have been unthinkable for the Allies to have stopped at the French-German border (believing they could contain Nazi expansionism in the post-war era),...
View ArticleThe Perception of Weakness
Matters of war and peace involve issues of mutual perception as much as ideologies or interests. Historically, when enemies perceived each other to be strong, the deterrent effect of that perception...
View ArticleThe Strategy of Defeat
In his review of David Halberstam’s book The Best and Brightest, Col. Tom Snodgrass, writing in the January 2007 issue of American Thinker reviews in exhaustive detail how, in 1961, President Kennedy...
View ArticleSetting America Free
Our war against Islamic radicalism will be fought for many more years, but its defeat will never be achieved so long as we continue to transfer petro-wealth to those who wish to harm us. The U.S. has...
View ArticleWhen Dialogue becomes Dangerous
The recent meeting between former President Jimmy Carter and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus has once again highlighted the perils of negotiating with terrorists. Carter emerged from that...
View ArticleEmbracing Delusions: Lessons for the Olmert Government
There is an old adage to the effect that if your only tool is a hammer; every problem looks like a nail. That is, in geo-political terms, catastrophes are not caused because of insufficient...
View ArticleIsrael’s Conundrum
As Israel bombards Islamic Hamas military targets in Gaza, much of the world screams in protest that Israel has overreacted. Within minutes of the first Israeli air strike, the Arabs were screaming...
View ArticleWhen Barbarism Becomes A “Natural Response”
Leave it to the mainstream media to justify terrorism by blaming its victims. In the wake of the Itamar tragedy where a father, mother and their three young children were butchered in a small Jewish...
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